Improved apparatus for carbureting gas



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Patented Sept. 25, 1866.

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. AM. PHUTOL|THO.C0.N.Y. (OSBURNES PROCESS) *UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

`JOHN F. BOYNTON, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CARBURETING GAS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,209, dated September25, 1366.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. BoYNToN, of Syracuse, in the county ofOnondaga and State of New York, have invented an Improved Apparatus forOarbureting Gas, of which the following is a specification.

It is well known that illuminating gas standing a long time over coldwater or conveyed a long distance through cold pipes will have much ofits illuminating properties lcondensed and lost, and it is believed thatthe illuminating qualities of gas are hydrocarbons, such as benzole andtoluole held in suspension by hydrogen and other gases, and that theseelements are precipitated in the gasmains of the city, and may be foundwith the water at the water-traps at the street-mains instead of beingcarried forward into the houses and pla-ces of consumption, so that,however perfectly the gas may have been manufactured at the works, itwill become deprived of a large portion of its value before it reachesthe consumer.

Many devices have been'suggested for overcoming the difficulty byrestoring to the gas its illuminating properties at some part of thegas-pipes before it reaches the burner. This is the objectof myinvention; and it consists of an apparatus for thoroughly comminglingthe compound vapors of hydrocarbons with depreciated gases, and also forthe purpose of carbonizng common air.

The following is an accurate description, to enable others skilled insuch matters to construct the same, when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings. v

I prefer to call my apparatus a gas -light multiplier.7

Figure l is a view of the inside of the apparatus as seen from above,showing the double-wall perforated partition dividing the multiplierinto an outer and inner chamber, and showing the pegs sustaining fibrousmaterial supported by base-board; Fig. 2, vertical longitudinal sectionof the interior of the same.

A, entrance; B, exit for gas or air; C, tube and opening for supplyinghydrocarbons; D, the magazine of automatic filler E, base boardperforated for sustaining wooden pegs supporting fibrous material,driven into the perforations, carrying the fibrous materia-l with it;F,`wooden pegs, with slot X in the top, supporting fibrous material; G,fibrous material;

H, compound double wall movable partition resting upon the base-board,dividing the 4vapor-chambers into six compartments, causing the gas asit passes through the apparatus to be extensively divided and brought incontact with the surfaces of the wooden pegs and fi brons material. Voodor lgneous substances are preferable for supporting the fibrousmaterial, as, by their capillary action, they raise the liquids to theupper portion of the apparatus, and, with the fibrous material, exert acompound capillary action.

D, the magazine of the automatic iiller, as seen attached in Fig. 2, isa vessel to be filled with the carbonizing-luid, with a plug, I, closingit air-tight at the top, and at its bottom or tubular portion a cock, J,so arranged that it may be screwed or attached to the tube C, whichextends nearly to the bottom of the reservoir, as seen by the dottedlines in Fig. 2. K is a cock in the external and upper portion of tubeC, to prevent escape of gas when the magazine of the automatic filler isremoved from tube O for iilling or other purposes.

To supply the automatic filler D it is only necessary to close the cockJ, remove plug I, and introduce thcmliquid through a funnel. Afterreplacing plug I, open cocks J and K, and the liquid will pass down tubeO from the magazine, being displaced by the gas, until the reservoir isfilled suficiently to close the mouth of tube O, when no more can escapeuntil the gas has absorbed a sufficient quantity in the reservoir tofree the mouth of tube O, and thereby allowing another portion of gas'to ascend into the magazine, displacing more liquid.

L L are outer and inner chambers; M, condensing and absorbing platecovered with fibrous material, resting upon and over the partitions landpegs.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. An apparatus for carbonizing gas and air, and which I prefer to calla gaslight multiplier, as hereinafter described.

2. A detachable reservoir, to operate sub stantially as described, forfilling the carbonizer with liquid.

3. The lling-reservoirD, in combination with the cocks J and K.

4. The combination of ligneons material with fibrous material.

5. The compound capillary action of ligneous material with brousmaterial.

6. The perforated base-board or its equivalent.

7. The use of pegs supported from a baseboard.

8. The arranging of the fibrous material parallel with the ligneousmaterial, in the man ner described.

y 9. The slot in the top of the pegs for securing the brous material.

10. The securing of the brous material at the bottom ofthe peg by itsbeing driven with the peg into a perforation of the base-board.

11. The combination of ligneous and tibrous material, producing acompound capillary action, attached to a base-board forming a cage, andso 4arranged that it can be placed in and taken from the reservoir orcarbonizing-chamber.

12. A compound perforated partition, so arranged as to divide thecarbonizing-chamber into an internal and external apartment.

13. The arrangement of the compound perforated partition, that it may beremoved and replaced in the carbonizin g chamber without disturbing thecage.

14. A double partition, so arranged that the compound capillary actionof the ligneous and iibrous material may take place between its Walls.

15. The making of these partitions of any material capable of producingcapillary act-ion.

16. The use of capillary action of any material of which thesepartitions may be constructed. f

17. The using of ligneous material for a partition.

. JOHN F. BOYNTON. Witnesses:

H. 0. MARTIN, EWM. F. BROWN.

